Significant as has been the role of psychoanalysis and
psychotherapy in contemporary culture and society, its importance
continues to grow at an accelerating rate as more specific,
focused, and involving forms of therapy are devised. The
contributions of eminent practitioners that make up this volume
deal with specific types of occurrences in the confrontation
between patient and therapist, such as silence, crying, sleeping,
touching, use of first names, gifts, note taking, termination, etc.
The views expressed here demonstrate how the rigidity of early
psychoanalytic theory has yielded to fundamental changes in the
handling of the analytic situation; numerous new schools of thought
have arisen in attempts to give deeper fulfillment to the needs of
patient, analyst, and society. The persuasions of these new
schools--Gestaltist, existentialist, neo-Freudian, behavioralist,
ego psychologist, rational-emotive, encounter, and many
others--underlie the material presented here. Impulsiveness and
originality mark all of these departures from orthodoxy. The
therapist, becoming more open and more manifestly responsive in his
interaction with the patient, is clearly shifting his role from
that of an objective listener and interpreter to that of an overt
participant in therapy. These trends are further intensified by the
fact that the practice of psychotherapy is now carried on, by a
vast number of clinical psychologists, personality psychologists,
social psychologists, and social workers who have taken up
psychotherapy as a professional activity in urban mental health
clinics and in a variety of settings outside the major American
metropolitan areas. The Analytic Situation provides informative,
revealing reading for everyone involved in the psychotherapeutic
process. It also offers provocative insights to students and
therapists in training.
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